The University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the launch of a new Ph.D. DEGREE in Technology Management. Applications are due January 15, 2017 for matriculation in Fall 2017.
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Fellowship Opportunity: Summer Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences
Organizations and their Effectiveness: July 10-July 21, 2017
Applications due January 9, 2017
Application information is available here.
Directors:
Robert Gibbons, Economics and Management, MIT;
Woody Powell, Education and Sociology, Stanford University
RSW is happy to report that two featured articles in the current issue of RSW can be freely accessed on the publisher’s website. Below are the titles and abstracts. The first is Robin Leidner’s study of actors holding “survival jobs,” and struggling to maintain their identities as professional actors. The other is David Orzechowicz’s study of a seemingly gay-friendly work culture at a well-known amusement park. Both are provocative pieces that make for interesting reading. The links should work, or simply point your browser here and scroll for the papers: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0277-2833201629
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From Chris Andrews – Drew University: I saw the OOW at the Movies post and added several movies to the growing list on the Google spreadsheet, but I also thought I’d share several assignments from my Sociology of Work class that incorporate films and/or television. Films and documentaries can be a great way for students to learn vicariously about all sorts of aspects of organizations, occupations, and work!
Congratulations to Guang Ying Mo and her coauthors who were recently awarded one of the Emerald Literati Networks Award for Excellence, 2016! Mo and her co-authors, Zach Hayat and Barry Wellman, received an Outstanding Author Contribution Award in the Book Series, Studies in Media and Communications. Their award-winning book chapter is: “How Far Can Scholarly Networks Go? Examining the Relationships between Disciplines, Motivations, and Clusters.”
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While ASA encourages the sharing of job opportunities, we would like you to be aware of current policy regarding job listings:
Note that all employers posting a position in the ASA Job Bank are given the opportunity to request information on that position be submitted to up to two section listservs.
From now and until January 31, 2017, ASA is accepting nominations for its nine major awards. Each August the American Sociological Association proudly presents awards to individuals and groups deserving of recognition. ASA members are encouraged to submit nominations for the following ASA awards. The deadline for nominations is provided with each award criteria. Each award selection committee is appointed by Committee on Committees and approved by ASA Council. The award selection committees are constituted to review nominations. These awards are presented at the ASA Annual Meeting each August. Remember! The deadline for submission of nominations is January 31, 2017. Currently, the ASA presents the following awards:
Any questions or concerns should be sent to Governance at governance@asanet.org. We hope you will help us find those special sociologists who disserve this kind of recognition.
Section member, Kumiko Nemoto, recently published a new book: Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan (ILR/Cornell University Press, 2016)
The number of women in positions of power and authority in Japanese companies has remained small despite the increase in the number of educated women and the passage of legislation on gender equality. In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan’s coordinated capitalism and institutional stasis to challenge claims that the surge in women’s education and employment will logically lead to the decline of gender inequality and eventually improve women’s status in the Japanese workplace.
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Please join the Sociology of Medical Education Interest Group for an informal gathering at ASA! We will meet on Saturday, August 20th from 7:30-9:00pm in the Sheraton Hotel Bar.
Our group members conduct research on health professions and medical education (training, socialization, or professionalization, broadly defined). For more information or to be added to the Google group, please contact Kelly Underman (UIC), Laura Hirshfield (UIC) or Alexandra Vinson (Northwestern).
by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has opened with the Federal Register a second and final 20 day comment period on the expansion of private sector employer data collection to include pay data. These pay data will make it possible for social scientists, the EEOC and other regulators to observe workplace specific gender and racial pay gaps.
Please go to the Federal Register and submit your recommendations.
In the first comment period social scientists were almost entirely absent. The business community, however, were quite active arguing that these data were not needed, overly burdensome, or with little value. In fact, there are no alternative general population workplace level sources of data on earnings inequalities for the U.S., the burden is light because most employers have digitized personnel systems already capable of producing these data, and the value to the regulatory and scientific community are immense.
I am asking all social scientists who understand the importance of identifying the organizational sources of pay inequalities to weigh in during this second and last comment period. You can read the proposed data collection, previous comments and weigh in with your expert opinion here:
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Organizations, Occupations and Work 